TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Rabies: relevance, prevention, and management in travel medicine
JO  - Infectious disease clinics of North America
A1  - Hatz, Christoph F. R.
A1  - Kuenzli, Esther
A1  - Funk, Maia
SP  - 739
EP  - 753
VL  - 26
IS  - 3
N2  - Rabies is a zoonotic viral disease, transmitted only in mammals. Terrestrial rabies, predominantly transmitted by dogs, is the most important rabies cycle threatening humans. The causative neurotropic virus is a negative-stranded RNA virus of the family Rhabdoviridae, genus Lyssavirus. This genus contains several rabies-related viruses. All variants are known or suspected to cause rabieslike diseases. Transmission occurs by the virus entering through the skin or the mucosa after bites, scratches, or preexisting injuries contaminated by the saliva of an infected mammal. Only 51 human rabies cases that have not been transmitted by animal bites are described.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0891-5520
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idc.2012.05.001
ID  - ref1
ER  -